Yesterday, I proposed that you should resist the temptation to generalize over all of mind design space. If we restrict ourselves to minds specifiable in a trillion bits or less, then each universal generalization "All minds m: X(m)" has two to the trillionth chances to be false, while each existential generalization "Exists mind m: X(m)" has two to the trillionth chances to be true.
I personally feel that further justification is needed to convince me that the mind space is arranged this way. Suppose we made the same argument about generalizati... (read more)
I personally feel that further justification is needed to convince me that the mind space is arranged this way. Suppose we made the same argument about generalizati... (read more)